Clothes-pounder



-(Mode1.)

A. PATTERSON.

CLOTHES POUNDERi Patented Dec; 6,1881.

v No. 250,386.

UNITE STATES- PATENT Ounce.

' AMOS PATTERSON, OF GENTERVILLE, IOWA.

CLOTH ES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,386, dated December6, 1881. Application filed June 19, 1880. (ModeL) T 0 all whom it mayconcern Be it known that I, AMos PATTERSON, of Oenterville, in thecounty of Appanoose and State of Iowa, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Clothes-Founders; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is avertical longitudinal sectional View, on line-1min Fig. 2,ofaclothes-pounder of my improved construction; and Fig. 2 is a planview of the same.

This invention has relation to clothes-pounders; and it consists intheim provements in the construction of the same, hereinafter fullydescribed, and particularly pointed in the claim.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the pounder, which iscomposed of a number of vertical sheet-metal tubes, B, sol-' deredtogether in a group, and provided with a centrally-located verticalhandle, 0.

The tubes B are formed from blanks ofsheet metal, the end edges beingfirst folded, as shown at D, and the blank then properly bent and theside edges soldered in any suitable manner. This pounder operates toforce the water or washing-fluid through clothes asit'is pressed uponthem, and the current created by manipulating the device passing throughthe clothes thoroughly and quickly cleanses them.

The device is cheap and simple, and is superior to the perforated woodenheaters in many respects. The thinness of the sheet-met- 3 5 allpartitions gives more available surface than where the wooden beater isemployed, and as the water forced through the clothes does the work, andnot the blows of the pounder, a better result is obtained by myconstruction. 40

I am aware of Patents No.109,240 to J. W. Norton, and No. 141,082 to E.Saxtou, which are designed with an object similar to that of myinvention; but my device differs in construction from these patents. Inthe latter 5 the cylinders or tubes are formed by perforating a solidblock of wood to a certain depth, while in my invention sheet-metaltubes simply soldered together and open at the top are used. I claimnothing shown in these patents; 50 but,

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is-

A clothes-pounder formed simply ot'a group 5 of vertical sheet-metaltubes or cylinders, B, open at both ends and soldered together, asshown, to form a hexagonal body, and having their end edges, D, foldedover so as to present a smooth edge to the clothes, suhstan- 6o tiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

AMOS PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

H. B. WILLIAMS, J. R. HAYS.

